Going Large

The rain is playing pop with moth studies at the moment and the darker mornings mess up my delicate attempts to balance trap photography with making early morning tea. I sense that I will soon be storing everything away and trying to get down to updating my so-called records, a task which looms larger with every year that goes by.

Here is a nice one, anyway, to enliven the procession of predictable Autumn arrivals: a Large Wainscot, which justifies its name. Here it is again, above and below, with its Common Wainscot cousin which has to be content with what you might call the standard size for everyday UK moths.

The weather is also taking its toll on those moths which continue bravely to fly, such as these somewhat battered yellow underwings, below. The second one is enjoying itself among some of the vast mound of apples which we turned into 21 gallons of apple juice (some of it due to morph into cider) at our village Apple Crush last week.